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Percy Harvin had another problem with migraine headaches today, apparently causing him to collapse during practice. He was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Not much else is known about the situation at the moment. Hopefully Percy is okay soon. I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard of a migraine being so bad that someone had to be taken by an ambulance before.
I just listened to an interview with Jeff George on Paul Allen’s radio show on KFAN (I listen online at KFAN Online). George told Paul Allen that if Brett Favre does indeed retire he’s ready and willing to step in and lead the team to the Super Bowl. He said that he can still do everything that he could in 1999, when he last started for the Vikes. George commented that he was never a mobile quarterback anyway, his arm is just as strong as it’s ever been, and that he understands that his main job would be to pass from the pocket and hand the ball to Adrian Peterson a lot.
Jeff George last started for the Vikings in 1999. He took over after the previous year’s MVP Randall Cunningham had been very ineffective at the beginning of the year. The Vikings started the year with a 2-4 record with Cunningham starting, but went 8-2 the rest of the year once George took over. They went on to beat the Cowboys in the first round of the playoffs before losing to the eventual Super Bowl winners, the St. Louis Rams. In the game against the Rams, the Vikings were down 35-17 at one point before they cut George loose. George led the Vikings up and down the field to score 20 points in the 4th quarter, but the Vikings defense could not stop “The Greatest Show On Turf”, and they ended up losing the game 49-37. While it’s unlikely that Jeff George is taken seriously, and in my opinion it’s not even a sure thing that Brett Favre won’t play, I do believe that George would be capable of doing some damage with this Vikings team. He had a strong arm and he was capable of being very accurate while throwing very deep. I don’t, however, think he’s capable of making the team any better than they’d be with Tarvaris Jackson or Sage Rosenfels. Even those guys will win a lot of games with the current Vikings roster. But no matter what the case with Jeff George, it’s never going to happen.
I will mention that that was the home opener, and the only game I was able to attend at the Dome last year. I think I picked the right game to be at! About the play, Favre said:
For those of you who may need a memory refresher, or those of you who just love the play and want to see it again, here’s a video clip of the play:
Let me just add that this was Brett Favre’s first home game as a member of the Minnesota Vikings. The moment that the refs signaled the touchdown, the dome was the single loudest place I have ever been in my entire life. That record was soon broken, though, right after the refs reviewed it and announced that the call stood, and it was indeed a touchdown. Vikings fans are so awesome!
Is Sage Rosenfels on his way out of Minnesota? It’s obviously too early to tell, but the reports out of mini camp make it look like he’s falling down the depth charts.
With Brett Favre still… uh… “considering retirement”, Tarvaris Jackson has been getting the reps with the first team, unsurprisingly. What is surprising, however, is 6th round draft pick Joe Webb, the quarterback who was drafted out of Alabama Birmingham to play wide receiver for the Vikings, is getting reps with the 2nd team. Webb has been wowing people with his athletic ability since draft day, but apparently he was given a chance to throw the ball a little bit during the rookie camps and some of the coaches were pleasantly surprised. If he has any ability to play quarterback at this level, it might actually be a pretty smart move for the Vikings to hold onto him. They could list him as a wide receiver so that he could play whenever they wanted him to (3rd string quarterbacks have some unique rules on what you can and can’t do with them), but he’d be available to take snaps in the crazy event that both Favre and Jackson got hurt.
In the latest news of the ever-so-exciting Pat and Kevin Williams case against the NFL, a judge that presided over the federal case said that the Williams’ have to pay their on court fees, and the NFL has to pay it’s own. Since no one “won” the case, neither will be charged with the others’ fees.
Yep… the exciting news is that everyone has to pay their own court costs. Man… this part of the year is so slow.
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I’m sure most of you have heard about the Twitter-War going on between Visanthe Shiancoe and former Viking safety Darren Sharper. Brad Childress recently said he’s not too worried about it, but sooner or later someone will have to reel it in. I think we’re getting to that point. Read the latest news about the war of words from Viking Nation. You know, whenever you get two competitive people running their mouths at each other, it’s going to end up getting heated. That being said, if I were to take sides, I would side with Shank, and not just because I’m a Vikings fan. You just don’t say that you’re going to target an injury on the opposing team’s quarterback. Sharper made the comment that “X marks the spot” when speaking about the surgically repaired ankle of Vikings quarterback Brett Favre. A quarterback is probably the most protected guy on the team when it comes to team mates sticking up for him. Of course Shiancoe is going to fire back. Shiancoe responded by reminding Sharper that he’s also coming off an injury. Maybe not the classiest thing to say, but fair retaliation… and since the two are friends off the field, probably not that big of a deal. Shiancoe recently posted this picture:
Again, not classy, but harmless. This is where I think Sharper over reacted. He responded with:
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OH NO! “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” – George Santayana I woke up this morning to read two stories that brought fear to my heart. Those two stories… Can it be true? Did Jared Allen cut his Mullet? Here is the image from Vikings Gab
Perhaps Jared Allen should have learned from history. What do I mean?
Jared Allen met a woman and fell in love with her, and he told her about the power of his hair. She agreed to marry him if he’d cut his hair. In the story about Samson, his hair grew back and he pushed over pillars that held up a temple full of Philistines. Hopefully Jared’s hair grows back in time for him to push over the offensive tackles that protect quarterbacks. I wonder if Rogain works on mullets.
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The best job that Daunte Culpepper’s agent was able to land his once-marquee-name client was a spot on the UFL’s Sacramento Mountain Lions. Daunte’s problem is that his agent isn’t very good. Of course, that’s his own fault, since he is his own agent. It’s a shame that Daunte has to have an ego as big as his 270 pound frame. It’s that ego that cost him his spot as the Vikings franchise quarterback, and it’s probably what cost him his spot as the Miami Dolphin’s “savior”. It’s true that he stunk as a Dolphin, but part of that is because he tried to come back from his injury too quickly. If he would’ve taken his time, and more importantly had a good attitude about everything, the Dolphins probably would have waited for him to get back to full strength before passing a final judgement. I can’t really blame him for his lack of success in Oakland or Detroit. After all, it’s Oakland and Detroit. Daunte’s trip to Sacremento will reunite him with his former coach, Dennis Green. All this being said, though… I live in Council Bluffs, IA, which is a short jaunt across a river from Omaha, Nebraska. Omaha got a UFL team this year, and I plan on going to the game when Omaha hosts Sacramento. It might be fun watching Denny Green coach Daunte Culpepper… for the nostalgia of it all.
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With the pending suspensions of both of their starting defensive tackles, the Minnesota Vikings may be looking for quick solutions to their need for linemen. It appears that Albert Haynesworth has shown interest in becoming a Minnesota Viking. What makes that more interesting is that there has been talk going around the internet and sports talk radio that it’s possible that the NFL would suspend one of the Williams boys at a time. That would make Haynesworth even MORE valuable to the Vikings in my opinion. Why would it make him more valuable?
Because if both Pat and Kevin Williams are suspended for the first four games of the season, bringing in Haynesworth means he’s going to play often for those four games along side a Vikings backup tackle. Then the Williams Wall would return for the fifth game, and Haynesworth would become just part of the rotation. The Vikings would still be weak at the tackle position for the first four games, and they might not get the full value of Haynesworth for the last 12 games. However, if Pat and Kevin don’t serve their suspensions at the same time, bringing in Haynesworth would mean that the Vikings would have starting quality tackles at both positions for all 16 games, plus it would mean that the Vikings were getting full value from Haynesworth for half the season instead of a fourth of the season. If that was the case, the Vikings could even rest Haynesworth for a couple games at the end of the year and go into the playoffs with 3 fresh defensive tackles. But Haynesworth isn’t the only person the Vikings may look at. It’s also being reported that the Vikings are interested in Chester Potts. Potts has been a long time left guard for the Houston Texans, and until he got hurt last season he was very reliable for them. If the Vikings picked him up, he would be moved to the right guard position and would be expected to compete with Anthony Herrera for the starting position. I’ve been wanting the Vikings to make an upgrade at right guard all offseason long. I hope this one goes through for them.
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This news comes despite the fact that many people felt like Culpepper was in the best shape that he’s been in since his 2005 knee explosion while playing as the starting quarterback for our Minnesota Vikings.
